Breach filing
ArchivedVann Virginia Center for Orthopaedics, PC dba Atlantic Orthopaedic Specialists: 15,264 individuals, Nov 2024.
Vann Virginia Center for Orthopaedics, PC dba Atlantic Orthopaedic Specialists reported a breach of unsecured protected health information to the HHS Office for Civil Rights on 22 November 2024. The filing records the organisation as a healthcare provider in Virginia and lists 15,264 individuals affected, which makes it the 42nd largest of the 157 Virginia filings on the register and the 293rd largest of the 741 filings submitted nationally in 2024. Among the 10 Virginia filings made in 2024 it ranks 5th.
Individuals affected
15,264
As reported to HHS
Modelled cost (IBM 2025)
$2.44M
Method shown, not disclosed
Rank in VA
42nd
of 157 Virginia filings
Rank in 2024
293rd
of 741 filings nationally
Section F.1 / The filing
As posted by HHS OCR
Every value below is the portal's own field for this filing, plus its rank within the register.
- Covered entity type
- Healthcare Provider
- Individuals affected
- 15,264
- Breach submission date
- 22 November 2024
- Submission year
- 2024
- Type of breach
- Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of breached information
- Business associate present
- No
- State
- Virginia (VA)
- Portal status
- listed in the HHS OCR breach portal archive
- Rank in Virginia by size
- 42nd of 157
- Rank in 2024 nationally
- 293rd of 741
- Virginia median filing
- 4,441 individuals
- Register id (derived)
- VA-20241122-vann-virginia-center-for-orthopaedics-pc
Section F.2 / In context
Where this filing sits in Virginia and in 2024
OCR classifies the incident as a hacking or IT incident, with the breached information held in email. Hacking/IT Incident is the type recorded on 99 of the 157 Virginia filings (63%) and on 83% of all filings submitted in 2024. Email appears on 20% of Virginia filings.
No business associate is recorded on the filing; 39% of Virginia filings do involve one. At 15,264 individuals the breach is 3.4 times the Virginia median filing of 4,441 and 3.8 times the national median of 4,000 across all 7,884 filings. It sits in the 10,000 to 99,999 band, which holds 1,938 filings.
As of 28 August 2026 the case is listed in the HHS OCR breach portal archive. OCR's closing summary of the case is reproduced in full below.
Virginia's breach notification statute (Va. Code 18.2-186.6) requires notice to affected residents without unreasonable delay. Its attorney general threshold: all breaches (concurrent with individual notice). The HIPAA Breach Notification Rule ran alongside it: notice to affected individuals and to HHS without unreasonable delay and no later than 60 days after discovery, which is the clock that put this filing on the portal.
Multiplying 15,264 individuals by IBM's $160 customer-PII cost per record (Cost of a Data Breach 2025, the figure the site's calculator uses) gives a modelled $2.44M; the 2026 edition's $192 gives $2.93M. Both are modelled estimates with the method shown, not costs disclosed by Vann Virginia Center for Orthopaedics, PC dba Atlantic Orthopaedic Specialists. For scale, IBM's 2026 average cost of a healthcare breach is $6.64M, so this filing models at 0.4 times the sector average.
Section F.3 / OCR closing summary
The portal's archived description, in full
Written by the Office for Civil Rights when the case was closed and reproduced verbatim from the HHS export.
Vann Virginia Center for Orthopaedics dba Atlantic Orthopaedic Specialists, the covered entity (CE), reported that an employee was the target of an email phishing scheme that compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 15,264 individuals. The PHI involved in the incident included names, addresses, dates of birth, drivers' license and social security numbers, claims information, diagnoses/conditions, lab results, and medications. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Substitute notice was provided on the CE's website. In response to the breach, the CE implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards. Staff were retrained on email security.
Section F.5 / Modelled cost
15,264 individuals through IBM's per-record figures
Modelled cost / method shown, not a disclosed cost
ModelledIBM 2025 customer PII, $160 per record
$2.44M
15,264 x $160
IBM 2026 customer PII, $192 per record
$2.93M
15,264 x $192
Method: individuals affected, as reported by Vann Virginia Center for Orthopaedics, PC dba Atlantic Orthopaedic Specialists to HHS, multiplied by IBM's customer-PII cost per record (Cost of a Data Breach 2025 Figure 6 and the 2026 edition). No cost has been disclosed by the entity for this filing; the figure is a planning estimate, not a fact about the breach. IBM's per-record figures come from mid-volume breaches and IBM cautions against applying them to breaches involving millions of records; the site's per-record page explains where the multiplication holds and where it breaks down.
Context: IBM's average cost of a healthcare breach is $6.64M in the 2026 report ($7.42M in 2025); the global average across all sectors was $4.44M in 2025.
Cost per record: method and limits / Healthcare breach cost, IBM 2026
Section F.6 / Notification clock
Virginia statute and the HIPAA rule
State notification statute
Virginia: Va. Code 18.2-186.6
- Notice to individuals
- Without unreasonable delay
- Attorney general threshold
- All breaches (concurrent with individual notice) (Concurrent with individual notification)
- Private right of action
- Limited: Individuals may recover direct economic damages (no non-economic damages)
- Penalty
- AG may impose civil penalties up to $150,000 per breach
The HIPAA Breach Notification Rule runs alongside the state statute: notice to affected individuals and to HHS without unreasonable delay and no later than 60 days after discovery.
Section F.7 / Peer filings
Virginia filings closest in size
Neighbours by size rank among Virginia filings in 2024, topped up from other years where 2024 has too few. Filings of 10,000 or more link to their own page.
| Covered entity | Type | Individuals | Submitted | Breach type | Location | BA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Employee Benefits Corporation of America and Benefit Design Group, Inc. | Health Plan | 38,912 | 15 Feb 2024 | |||
| Colonial Behavioral Health | Healthcare Provider | 29,930 | 27 Nov 2024 | |||
| Goodwin Living Incorporated | Healthcare Provider | 7,170 | 29 Aug 2024 | |||
| Northern Virginia Oral, Maxillofacial & Implant Surgery | Healthcare Provider | 4,333 | 29 Mar 2024 |
Index / Companion schedules
13 HHS breach register
→Hub: every filing, by state, year and entity.
04 Biggest breaches
→Mega-breaches with primary-source cost figures.
Industry / Healthcare
→IBM 2026: $6.64M average, 13 years at #1.
Regulation / HIPAA penalties
→OCR enforcement tiers and the 60-day rule.
11 50-state laws
→Deadline, AG threshold and penalties per state.
Cost / Per record
→Where the per-record model is reliable.
Provenance
Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights, Breach Portal (breaches affecting 500 or more individuals), retrieved 2026-08-28. Public domain. Individuals affected and dates as reported by the covered entity.
Portal: ocrportal.hhs.gov breach report. Statutory basis: HITECH Act section 13402(e)(4): the Secretary must post a list of breaches of unsecured protected health information affecting 500 or more individuals. Breaches affecting fewer than 500 individuals are reported to OCR annually and are not posted, so they are not on this register. Status wording follows the portal's two tabs ("Cases Currently Under Investigation" and "Archive") as of 28 August 2026; a filing moves to the archive when OCR closes the case. Modelled costs on this site are a method applied to the reported count, using IBM Cost of a Data Breach per-record figures, and are never a cost disclosed by the entity. This row: hhs-breach-archive__2026-08-28.csv, export row 643.
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